Soccer match preview: Glentoran confident before travelling to Ballymena United

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Competition: Northern Ireland Premiership
Competition: Mon 02.January
Match begins: 15:00 (UTC)
Venue: The Showgrounds (6000 seats)

This is football, this is Premiership and this is Ballymena United - Glentoran. Check out our comprehensive guide!

Insights:
  • Ballymena United have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • Glentoran have the fewest conceded goals (11) in Premiership

Ballymena United and Glentoran should both be in good shape for this meeting, as there's been enough days for both of them to train and rest since their last matches.

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Ballymena United form and stats

Ballymena United have collected 13 points from their Premiership home games so far after 4-1-4.

Ballymena United are anxiously hoping for a goal as it's been 188 minutes since the last one in league fixtures. (Scored by McDaid).

Ballymena United faced defeat in their previous match, away at Coleraine (0-2).

Prior to that was the away defeat visiting Portadown (0-1).

Ballymena have proved capable of finding the net in their games here at The Showgrounds with 14 goals in 9 league matches. It's worth mentioning that 7 of these goals has been scored in their last three home matches. On the other hand, Ballymena United have conceded 13 goals.

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Glentoran form and stats

As the visiting team matches, Glentoran, who have the fewest conceded goals (11) in Premiership, have produced an overall stat of 5-2-3 so far. Three has not been a lucky number for Glentoran as they have been defeated three times in a row since the Portadown match.

This game can not go any worse than the previous one, the home defeat versus Linfield with 1-2 on the scoreboard.

A 0-1 defeat away at Cliftonville before that.

Look out: 12 of the latest 16 league matches featuring this side have ended with only one (or no) team scoring (Both Teams to Score NO in sports betting words).

The visiting Glentoran have scored more than one goal per away game in the league so far. The grand total is 13 goals from 10 games. They concede less than a goal on average per away game (6 so far). It's worth mentioning that 4 of these goals has been conceded in their last three away matches.

Head 2 Head

Glentoran have avoided defeat in the last 4 games (2-2-0) facing Ballymena United.

Top Goalscorers

GlentoranC. McMenamin
C. McMenamin
9 goals
BallymenaD. McDaid
D. McDaid
6 goals
GlentoranJ. Donnelly
J. Donnelly
6 goals

Ballymena United missing players

Glentoran missing players

Ballymena United Glentoran
Total Home vs mid Statistics Stat vs mid Away Total
19 9 2 Played P 2 10 18
7 4 1 Won W 0 5 11
2 1 1 Drew D 1 2 2
10 4 0 Lost L 1 3 5
24 14 4 Scored S 1 13 33
29 13 3 Conceded C 2 6 11
100% 100% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 50% 80% 89%
84% 89% 100% Over 1.5 O 1.5 50% 50% 61%
53% 67% 100% Over 2.5 O 2.5 50% 40% 56%
26% 33% 50% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 10% 28%
16% 11% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 10% 11%
37% 44% 100% BTTS BTTS 50% 20% 28%
26% 22% 0% Clean Sheets C S 50% 70% 61%
37% 33% 0% Failed to Score F T 50% 30% 22%
 
4.1 4.1 4 Corners for (avg) C F 5.5 6.3 6.1
6.6 8.1 12 Corners against (avg) C A 5 4 4.2
1.4 1.6 3 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 2 1.2 1.4
1 0 0 Red cards R C 1 1 2
 
6.4 6.6 8 Shots (avg) S ( 3.5 10.1 10.4
3.1 3 4 Shots on Target (avg) S O 3 4.1 4.8
44% 52% 50% Goal Efficiency G E 17% 32% 38%
 
10.6 9 12.5 Shots against (avg) S A 3 6 6.3
4.8 4 3.5 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 2 3.1 2.5
Key stats in Premiership this season:
  • Ballymena United have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • Ballymena United haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
  • Glentoran have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded.
  • Glentoran have the fewest conceded goals (11) in Premiership
  • Glentoran have the fewest conceded goals in the second half (5) in Premiership
  • Glentoran have the most clean sheets (7) away in Premiership

  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A +/- P
1 Larne 20 14 3 3 38 13 10 7 2 1 21 4 10 7 1 2 17 9 25 45
2 Linfield 20 13 3 4 38 17 10 6 2 2 19 11 10 7 1 2 19 6 21 42
3 Cliftonville 20 13 3 4 35 25 9 7 2 0 21 7 11 6 1 4 14 18 10 42
4 Crusaders 20 12 3 5 41 24 11 9 1 1 30 9 9 3 2 4 11 15 17 39
5 Coleraine 20 11 3 6 34 17 11 6 2 3 19 10 9 5 1 3 15 7 17 36
6 Glentoran 18 11 2 5 33 11 8 6 0 2 20 5 10 5 2 3 13 6 22 35
7 Glenavon 19 6 5 8 33 32 11 5 2 4 20 17 8 1 3 4 13 15 1 23
8 Ballymena United 19 7 2 10 24 29 9 4 1 4 14 13 10 3 1 6 10 16 -5 23
9 Carrick Rangers 20 7 2 11 27 39 10 6 0 4 17 13 10 1 2 7 10 26 -12 23
10 Newry City AFC 20 6 0 14 22 39 9 4 0 5 13 13 11 2 0 9 9 26 -17 18
11 Dungannon Swifts 21 4 1 16 15 48 11 4 1 6 10 15 10 0 0 10 5 33 -33 13
12 Portadown 21 1 1 19 7 53 10 1 1 8 4 22 11 0 0 11 3 31 -46 4